CHIPS Incentives: Commercial Fabrication Facilities
Funds U.S. companies constructing, expanding, or modernizing commercial semiconductor fabrication facilities for leading-edge, current-generation, and mature-node chips.
CHIPS Incentives NOFO 1 was issued by the CHIPS Program Office within the U.S. Department of Commerce in February 2023, representing the first major funding opportunity under the $39 billion semiconductor incentives program authorized by the CHIPS and Science Act (signed August 9, 2022). In June 2023, the scope was widened to include facilities for semiconductor materials and manufacturing equipme…
Construction, expansion, or modernization of commercial semiconductor fabrication facilities. Capital investment must equal or exceed $300 million.
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